Guevara closed his remarks to the General Assembly by hypothesizing that this "wave of anger" would "sweep the lands of Latin America" and that the labor masses who "turn the wheel of history" were now, for the first time, "awakening from the long, brutalizing sleep to which they had been subjected". This included five times in his legs, once in the right shoulder and arm, and once in the chest and throat. These included reviewing the appeals and firing squads for those convicted as war criminals during the revolutionary tribunals,[10] instituting agrarian land reform as minister of industries, helping spearhead a successful nationwide literacy campaign, serving as both national bank president and instructional director for Cuba's armed forces, and traversing the globe as a diplomat on behalf of Cuban socialism. Guevara did not play a key role in the fighting, as one day before the invasion a warship carrying Marines faked an invasion off the West Coast of Pinar del RÃo and drew forces commanded by Guevara to that region. [31] His rugby playing earned him the nickname "Fuser"âa contraction of El Furibundo (raging) and his mother's surname, de la Sernaâfor his aggressive style of play. Believing that the attitudes in Cuba towards race, women, individualism, and manual labor were the product of the island's outdated past, all individuals were urged to view each other as equals and take on the values of what Guevara termed "el Hombre Nuevo" (the New Man). [33] The Guevara home contained more than 3,000 books, which allowed Guevara to be an enthusiastic and eclectic reader, with interests including Karl Marx, William Faulkner, André Gide, Emilio Salgari and Jules Verne. [258] When a few months later riots broke out in Berlin, France, and Chicago, and the unrest spread to the American college campuses, young men and women wore Che Guevara T-shirts and carried his pictures during their protest marches. "[44] Guevara used notes taken during this trip to write an account, titled The Motorcycle Diaries, which later became a New York Times best-seller,[45] and was adapted into a 2004 award-winning film of the same name. 29 de octubre de 1960. [26] His father, a staunch supporter of Republicans from the Spanish Civil War, often hosted many veterans from the conflict in the Guevara home. [275] Exiled former Cuban prisoners have expressed similar opinions, among them Armando Valladares, who declared Guevara "a man full of hatred" who executed dozens without trial,[276] and Carlos Alberto Montaner, who asserted that Guevara possessed "a Robespierre mentality", wherein cruelty against the revolution's enemies was a virtue. Researchers hypothesize that Guevara's plan for fomenting a revolution in Bolivia failed for an array of reasons: In addition, Guevara's known preference for confrontation rather than compromise, which had previously surfaced during his guerrilla warfare campaign in Cuba, contributed to his inability to develop successful working relationships with local rebel leaders in Bolivia, just as it had in the Congo. [155] In describing this new method of "development", Guevara stated: There is a great difference between free-enterprise development and revolutionary development. [10] Moreover, a 22 January 1959, Universal Newsreel broadcast in the United States and narrated by Ed Herlihy featured Fidel Castro asking an estimated one million Cubans whether they approved of the executions, and being met with a roaring "¡Si!" Tenía ascendencia irlandesa y vasca. [123] With as many as 20,000 Cubans estimated to have been killed at the hands of Batista's collaborators,[124][125][126][127] and many of the accused war criminals sentenced to death accused of torture and physical atrocities,[10] the newly-empowered government carried out executions, punctuated by cries from the crowds of "¡al paredón!" During that day and night, Guevara's forces quietly took down their base camp, burned their huts, and destroyed or threw weapons into Lake Tanganyika that they could not take with them, before crossing the border by boat into Tanzania at night and traveling by land to Dar es Salaam. [166] Llosa also accuses Guevara's "fanatical disposition" as being the linchpin of the "Sovietization" of the Cuban revolution, speculating that he possessed a "total subordination of reality to blind ideological orthodoxy". Ernesto (Che) Guevara was born in Rosario in Argentine in 1928. Che Guevara expounded a vision of a new socialist citizen who would work for the good of society rather than for personal profit. [177] This "epic", Guevara declared, would be written by the "hungry Indian masses, peasants without land, exploited workers, and progressive masses". Some people carry both, others only that of their father. Desde chico, el pequeño Ernesto sufría ataques de asma y, por recomendación médica, en 1932 la familia se mudó a las sierras de la provincia de Córdoba. "[9], âUrbano (a.k.a. [90], Although he maintained a demanding and harsh disposition, Guevara also viewed his role of commander as one of a teacher, entertaining his men during breaks between engagements with readings from the likes of Robert Louis Stevenson, Miguel de Cervantes, and Spanish lyric poets. As Guevara prepared for Bolivia, he secretly traveled back to Cuba on 21 July 1966 to visit Castro, as well as to see his wife and to write a last letter to his five children to be read upon his death, which ended with him instructing them: Above all, always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world. He also became well known in the West for his opposition to all forms of imperialism and neocolonialism and for his attacks on U.S. foreign policy. One ought to be Marxist with the same naturalness with which one is 'Newtonian' in physics, or 'Pasteurian' in biology. Many of the inhabitants willingly informed the Bolivian authorities and military about the guerrillas and their movements in the area. [9] Moreover, Guevara established health clinics, workshops to teach military tactics, and a newspaper to disseminate information. [96], To quell the rebellion, Cuban government troops began executing rebel prisoners on the spot, and regularly rounded up, tortured, and shot civilians as a tactic of intimidation. Cuba Remembers Che Guevara 40 Years after his Fall, "Revolution! [157] Guevara unapologetically defended his personal philosophy towards motivation and work, stating: This is not a matter of how many pounds of meat one might be able to eat, or how many times a year someone can go to the beach, or how many ornaments from abroad one might be able to buy with his current salary. [164] In Guevara's opinion, this situation continued to promote a "heightened sense of individual ownership" in which workers could not see the positive social benefits of their labor, leading them to instead seek individual material gain as before. Although suffering from asthma, he excelled as an athlete and a scholar, completing his medical studies in 1953. [230], Months earlier, during his last public declaration to the Tricontinental Conference,[187] Guevara had written his own epitaph, stating: "Wherever death may surprise us, let it be welcome, provided that this our battle cry may have reached some receptive ear and another hand may be extended to wield our weapons. A further integral part of fostering a sense of "unity between the individual and the mass", Guevara believed, was volunteer work and will. [241], A declassified memorandum dated 11 October 1967 to United States President Lyndon B. Johnson from his National Security Advisor Walt Whitman Rostow, called the decision to kill Guevara "stupid" but "understandable from a Bolivian standpoint". He also laid out the reasoning behind his anti-capitalist sentiments, stating: The laws of capitalism, blind and invisible to the majority, act upon the individual without his thinking about it. [280] At the end of his life, according to Thomas, "he seems to have become convinced of the virtues of violence for its own sake", while "his influence over Castro for good or evil" grew after his death, as Fidel took up many of his views. As a replacement for the pay increases abolished by Guevara, workers who exceeded their quota now only received a certificate of commendation, while workers who failed to meet their quotas were given a pay cut. Attacked by Batista's military soon after landing, many of the 82 men were either killed in the attack or executed upon capture; only 22 found each other afterwards. They were able to monitor his communications and so pre-empted his attacks and interdicted his supply lines. El Museo de la Memoria evoca al Ernesto "Che" Guevara con la muestra "De la inocencia a la ternura". 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